The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...
Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...
A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...
Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...
The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...
Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...
The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from ...
Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft has captured a stunning video clip of Earth ahead of its arrival on the lunar ...
The area measures over 62 times the diameter of Earth and is now shooting high-speed ... The coronal holes are regions where ...
They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up, allowing solar wind to escape freely into ... That gaseous material is on its way to Earth, blowing out at speeds of more than ...
far out in the long "tail" of Earth’s magnetic field. (Our planet's magnetic field should look a lot like the field around a bar magnet, but electrically charged particles in the solar wind push ...